There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labor you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.